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In Acts 10-11: 18, Luke use a set of connected stories about Peter, shared eating, and food to explore issues of Christian boundaries and the boundaries between Christians. Luke's presentation of the apostolic history argues for a genuine ecumenism between Jewish and Gentile Christians characterized and enacted through commensality. Moreover, when this commensality within the Eucharistic pattern of all early Christian community meals, we see that it has a bearing on how Luke viewed the Christian symposium; while it has definite implications for Christian Eucharistic sharing/ecumenism today.In Acts 10-11:18 Luke presents us with a series of meals whose memory he considers of importance in his vision of a world church: 1 one that reaches from Jerusalem out to the ends of the earth. 2 Moreover, these meals were recalled by him in such a manner that they were intended to challenge the already received wisdom of the churches in which his stories were being heard. 3 Recalling the structure and salient points of Luke's narrative allows us to speculate on some of the tensions present in early communities, while offering us material for reflection on our own practice which may have a bearing on certain issues in both missiology and ecumenism.
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